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Cameron Low breaks down his third-round submission win, including the final scramble that led to the rear naked choke and the mental battle that played out before he ever stepped into the cage. He talks balancing striking with grappling against a long, high-level boxer, before…

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Combat Confidential speaks with Cameron Lowe after his win at GFC 2 - GladiatEire Fighting Championships 2. He describes a close fight in which his opponent had the edge in striking while Lowe had more success grappling, including several submission attempts that did not finish in the first two rounds. After round two his coach told him he was likely ahead but should not leave the outcome to the judges; with about thirty seconds left Lowe secured a rear-naked choke for the tap. Lowe says he felt enormous relief after worrying in the locker room that his opponent had knocked people out. He explains that he usually prefers to strike but chose a mixed plan against an opponent described as a high-level amateur boxer with a similar build, leaning on his blue-belt jiu-jitsu for takedowns and submissions while still throwing hands and kicks. His pre-fight plan to his brother was takedown and choke, which he says came off in the third round after failed armbar, kimura, and triangle tries. He notes both of his wins have come in the third round and that staying active after a bout three weeks earlier has helped his nerves. He calls for a rematch with Bradley Leg after an accidental eye poke led to a no contest in their recent fight. He closes by crediting coach Rodney and plans to fight with no hesitation next time.

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All right, [music] >> everyone. Welcome back. Uh, Gladiator Fighting Championship. I have here Mr. Cameron Low. Uh, so first of all, congratulations on your win. It was a It was a a beautiful rear naked show. >> Thank you. >> Um, walk us through it like like walk us through like the last 30 seconds of that fight. So the last 30 seconds I was thinking it was a close enough fight. Your man was getting the the better of the exchanges on the feet and I was doing well with the grappling. I was going through a few submission attempts and after the second round I says to my coach in the corner am I winning the fight? And he was like I I think you are but don't be leaving in the hands of the judges. Go and get a finish. So I was like right need to get a finish. Went for the run to make a choke. Had it wrapped up and then he pulled the hand off. went for it again and then I was squeezing and I was so tired I was squeezing and going like like you know straining to get it and then eventually got the tap and that was it. >> Okay. Um what like in that instant when you when you feel the tap on your arm what was kind of going through like how did you feel like right there? >> Oh it's just a it's just a relief like you've never felt in your whole life like I was sitting warming up in the in the changing rooms thinking about it. I've seen the guy that I was fighting knock people out and I was thinking I could be knocked out here. Uh, and I was thinking feeling sick to the stomach. You just have to choose [clears throat] to just push through that and then you know once you get the top then it's like unbelievable relief and feeling and then I jumped on the cage and and jumped over to high five my brother. So couldn't get better than that. >> Heck yeah. Um, now you look like a jiu-jitsu guy. You look like a ground guy. Would that be is that a fair statement? >> See, to be honest with you, most if you have ever sparred me out there, you know that I like to exchange things on the feet. I I normally like to strike with people. >> You got long arms, so that makes sense. >> Long guy, long guy, but the guy I fought was the same sort of build as me. And I and someone told me that he was a a high level amateur boxer. So that kind of made me think like if I exchange with him, we might he might crack me with something, drop me. And so I thought I'm a blue belt jiu-jitsu. I've got good jiu-jitsu about bite me. So, let let's mix it up. Mix the martial arts. I can still land hands on them and land a few kicks on them, but but still go for the takedowns and go for the submission attempts and end up working in my favor. >> Heck yeah, I did. Um, now speaking of like, did you have like a like a like a game plan or a mindset kind of coming into this like what you what you wanted to do? >> The game plan. I said it to my brother this morning. I said, "I'm going to take him down. Take him down. Choke him out." And that was that was the plan. You know, it didn't it didn't happen the first time. It didn't happen the second time, you know, with all the submissions. Uh the armbar, I went for the armbar kamura triangle and they all sort of, you know, uh didn't really work, but then got the rain to the third round. So that was the plan and the plan was executed. >> At the end of the day, you know, like 30 seconds left, but it worked. >> Yeah. Can't complain, man. Wins win, right? Yeah. >> Now, what do do you find the benefit of kind of it was in your sub heaven in the third round? Like, do you find the benefit of being able to kind of go all three of those rounds getting your ring time in? >> Yeah. Well, I think well, if you look at my fights before, I I've got two wins now. They're both third round. So, I got a third round knockdown, a third round submission. So, I'm I'm quite good when it goes into later rounds. got good fitness and yeah, it's good. It's good to get that experience in the cage cuz when you're fighting in the cage, it's not really the same as sparring in the gym because you got that real big adrenaline going through you. >> So, the more time in the cage, I think the better. If you go if you go and finish the guy in like 10 seconds, it's not it's not really getting you that uh >> it's a nice win, but it's uh >> it's not getting you that experience. >> Yeah, experience wise, you suffer. There's a bit of suffer. more experience you can get I think the better you know like um I haven't been as active before and then if I go a long period without being active I'm very very very nervous for my fights but now I fought like 3 weeks ago and I fought now and I'm going to try and stay active for the next few months and I think the more and more I do that I I'll get more used to being in the cage you know >> right on um so do do you like do you struggle with your nerves or like is that >> uh well >> are you able to kind of maintain it or like is it like a healthy nerve nervousness or >> I would say it's a healthy nervousness. You know, I do get I do get pretty nervous going into the fight, but I think I've learned to adapt it and accept that like the nerves are coming to you, right? Let's use it to get excited about the fight and get you ramped up to go and do it. Like, uh, it's like a bit like a near-death experience kind of thing. You know what I mean? It's like you're it's getting the adrenaline flowing through you. So, if if I didn't get nervous, I would think there was something wrong. So, you have to just learn how to deal with it. You know what I mean? >> Right on. Okay. Uh what what's one thing you're going to take into your next fight? >> One thing I'm going to take into my next fight >> is just just have no hesitation. No hesitation whatsoever. Just >> complete flow Bruce Lee style. No hesitation. >> Like water. >> Just be like water. Flow with a goal like Rodney says, my coach. And uh just go and seek and destroy. You know what I mean? >> Right on, brother. All right. Um, we'll leave it at that, man. Um, do you want to shout anyone out? >> I've got a call out. I've got a call out. >> I love it. >> So, 3 weeks ago, I had a fight against a guy called Bradley Leg and we were having a good fight. I went into the second round and I unfortunately poked him in the eye and he wasn't able to continue. So, I ended up in no contest and his coaches said to me that they wanted to do a rematch. So, I'm just want to shout out Bradley. You're a nice guy and uh I would like the honor of fighting you again. So, let's do it as a nice call out. I'm saying let's do it again. >> That is the nicest call out I've ever [laughter] heard. >> No, absolutely. >> There's no there's no beef. It's just like let's just do the >> rematch. Yeah, absolutely. Um accidents happen, especially with eye pokes, you know, it just it is what it is. um you know unfortunate consequence of the the game sometimes. Yeah. Um but look, yeah, I hope you get I hope hope you two get to kind of settle it and really uh you know, find out who who's where on the hierarchy there. All right, look, I appreciate your time. Before we go, I just want to shout out Original Animals. Uh they are sponsoring me today. Um they sponsored a giveaway that I had, gave me a pretty dopeass t-shirt, um a couple of them. And uh so everyone check out Original Animals um on Instagram. And then originalan animals.co.uk um is their website. Uh check it out. They're awesome. Uh so yeah, and then if you really want to uh if you're really generous, uh you can check out my website, combatconfidential.com, um and help support me there. All right. Uh again, thank you very much, sir. >> Thank you, Nick. >> No problem. Have a good one, man. And until next time, until [music] your rematch. Yeah. Right now, >> let's go. Heat. Hey, Heat. [music]